Kingsland fans had plenty to cheer about as the Knights upset No. 2 seed Spring Grove to advance to the sub-section championship game against Rushford-Peterson, the top team in the state in Class A. They also cheered on Jacob Rindels, who had a career-high 34 points against Spring Grove, putting him over the 1,000-point mark for his career. CHRISTINE VREEMAN/SPRING VALLEY TRIBUNE

Jackie Apenhorst, accompanied by Amy Turner from Alcoa, Tenn., drives the Cindy horse and Heather Apenhorst is accompanied by her father, Lynn Apenhorst, driving the Roxanne horse. Youth classes must have an adult on board. The stands look empty because the youth classes took place at 8 a.m. sharp, meaning they were in the barn at 6 a.m. every morning getting horses ready. SUBMITTED PHOTOS

Jackie Apenhorst took second place with Selena. Heather Apenhorst took third place with Laci. SUBMITTED PHOTOS

A rural Spring Valley family spent a weekend at the end of January assisting with showing draft horses at the National Western Stock Show, where teams of powerful draft horses are hitched to massive wagons and judged on how they pull and are driven.

“It’s exciting! Imagine what we could do with this kind of money,” Spring Valley Area Food Shelf board member Kathy Baarsch said of being one of nearly 100 non-profit organizations to participate in the Otto Bremer Foundation’s March Millions for Southeastern Minnesota.

“Mine is that I’m just a doer…I get it done,” said Fillmore County District 1 commissioner write-in candidate Mitch Lentz, speaking to a gathering at the Spring Valley Public Library this past Thursday evening about what is his working style and how he addresses problems with which he must deal.

A quartet of Spring Valley-Wykoff FFA students – Kayla Mulhern, Marcus Plaehn, Nick Niemeyer and Josh Bradley – will be competing at the FFA state meats team competition after successfully finishing at the regional competition held recently in Lake City. Nine of the 32 schools in the region competed at the regional competition and four teams advanced to state competition, saidSpring Valley-Wykoff FFA advisor Kristal Brogan.

After several months, Saturday, Feb. 21, brought the culmination of the Regional Community Growth Projects to Rochester as the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) announced the winners of its One Big Thing Grant.

That’s right, there was something stinky about how things were going in Robin’s hood during the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) production of “Robin Hood,” brought to town by Kingsland School Parents (KSP) and performed by Kingsland students in kindergarten through sixth grade last Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28, at Kingsland Middle School.

A rural Spring Valley family spent a weekend at the end of January assisting with showing draft horses at the National Western Stock Show, where teams of powerful draft horses are hitched to massive wagons and judged on how they pull and are driven.

Kingsland Middle School will officially be called “Kingsland Intermediate School” as soon as the name is changed with the state, and Kingsland High School’s name will now be “Kingsland Junior-Senior High School,” though the Kingsland School Board acknowledged last Tuesday evening during its regular board meeting that the letters on the sign outside the high school building are not likely to change.